#geodesic (2019-01)

geodesic https://github.com/cloudposse/geodesic

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2019-01-03

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wow man, trying to get back into this after a 2 week brake is hurting my mind

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joshmyers

Too much and !

Jan avatar

haha

2019-01-04

Jan avatar

in the tf root modules is there a list someplace as to what all the backing services relate to?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

can you expand on “relate to”?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I’ve jotted down some notes on #atlantis with #geodesic

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Document Atlantis with Geodesic · Issue #355 · cloudposse/docs

what Explain this mind warping concept Introduction When you run your infrastructure with geodesic as your base image, you have the benfit of being able to run it anywhere you have docker support. …

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Nice write up! I thought of an edge case I think - not sure unless I can tias though.

Document Atlantis with Geodesic · Issue #355 · cloudposse/docs

what Explain this mind warping concept Introduction When you run your infrastructure with geodesic as your base image, you have the benfit of being able to run it anywhere you have docker support. …

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2019-01-05

2019-01-07

daveyu avatar

Not sure if I configured something wrong, but is there a way to keep an assume-role session active indefinitely?

[2]+  Stopped                 aws-vault exec ${AWS_VAULT_ARGS[@]} $role -- bash -l
-> Run 'assume-role' to login to AWS
 ⧉  testing
 ✗   (none) ~ ⨠  assume-role
Enter passphrase to unlock /conf/.awsvault/keys/:
aws-vault: error: Failed to start credential server: listen tcp 127.0.0.1:9099: bind: address already in use
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Hrm…..

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

so yes, it should be possible. We do run the aws-vault server in the background

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I am using a VM (AWS WorkSpace), so it doesn’t work for me

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)


aws-vault: error: Failed to start credential server: listen tcp 127.0.0.1 bind: address already in use

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

This doesn’t look right

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Are you using a recent version of geodesic?

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It’s only annoying because I find I have to exit out of geodesic completely before I can successfully assume-role again.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

hrmmm

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

If that’s the case, that’s a bug

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yeah i just rebuilt FROM cloudposse/geodesic:0.57.0

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ok, that’s recent

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

sec

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

to help me triage this…

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

are you running multiple geodesic containers at the same time?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

are you using aws-vault server mode natively on yourmac?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

if you run your geodesic shell and then run ps uxaww do you see aws-vault server running?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

when you start the shell, do you see the message:

* Started EC2 metadata service at <http://169.254.169.254/latest>
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ugh

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

(was hoping for the opposite order of thumbs)

daveyu avatar

aws-vault exec --assume-role-ttl=1h --server lootcrate-testing-admin -- bash -l

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guessing im running into problems at the 1h mark

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ohh

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ok, try this:

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

AWS_VAULT_ASSUME_ROLE_TTL=24h

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set that in the Dockerfile and rebuild

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ok

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fyi aws-vault: error: Maximum duration for assumed roles is 12h0m0s

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

hrm…

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ok, well start with that I guess

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

now, for indefinite, that “used to” work.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I wonder why I don’t see this [2]+ Stopped aws-vault exec ${AWS_VAULT_ARGS[@]} $role -- bash -l

daveyu avatar

ok this is getting somewhere:

aws-vault: error: Failed to get credentials for lootcrate (source profile for lootcrate-testing-admin): ValidationError: The requested DurationSeconds exceeds the MaxSessionDuration set for this role.
	status code: 400, request id: ef5c9f5d-12c6-11e9-bd1b-b5609fd02acf
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

oh interesting.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

(a) I didn’t know it was possible to scope it to a role (b) I feel like it’s a red herring since this used to work

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daveyu
09:57:30 PM
Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse) avatar
Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

@daveyu what version of geodesic are you suing?

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

see above

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

0.57

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

so the way it’s supposed to work is actually unreltaed to that ttl

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

basically, it could be 60 seconds

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

the way it’s supposed to work is when something needs AWS access, it uses the metadata api

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

that is proxied by aws-vault server which mocks the API

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

then it fetches some temporary credentials.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Can you open an issue against cloudposse/geodesic with this info

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sure thing

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I’ll have someone look into it.

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PSA: there have been a lot of awesome updates to geodesic in the past month

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if you haven’t upgraded, do give it a shot.

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if you’re using k8s, then the kube-ps1 prompt is really slick

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if you want to run multiple k8s clusters (kops) per account, that’ now supported using the direnv pattern

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we’re using geodesic regularly with #atlantis, so if that’s interesting hit me up

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we’ve added a script called aws-config-setup which makes it easier for users to setup aws-vault (no copy pasta)

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we’re adding iam-authenticator support to kops

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we’ve enhanced kubens and kubectx autocomplete with fzf

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we’ve added tfenv to automatically export envs for terraform consumption

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for terraform-root-modules, we’ve added support for multple new account types: identity, corp, security as well as generalized the pattern so we can add more account types easily

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we’ve started embracing SSM with terraform so that we automatically populate settings for consumption with chamber (no more copy pasta)

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anyways, if any of this sounds interesting and you want more info/demo, hit me up.

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I think CloudPosse needs a newsletter

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I’d love to get updates like this weekly or monthly

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thanks @Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)! signed up

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@sarkis yes - we’re well overdue for the next edition

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I not had a chance to it together

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catching up with all the new geodesic changes

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kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator

A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster - kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator

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right now, we’re working on getting the slack archives published on a static site so we can have the history available

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are you guys looking at k8s now?

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not yet

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at least a quarter out

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im just staying in touch with everything - getting ready

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that’s cool - at least it’s on the horizon

2019-01-08

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Almost all the additions I will need

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Will do an upgrade today

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@Jan we still need to work on injecting kops to existing subnets/vpcs

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yes though that will fall to my backlog as I will do the vpc creation via kops for now

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its a very easy though

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simply populate the cluster manifest with the vpc id, the subnet ID’s and make sure the cidr is the same

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then just kubectl create -f

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Yes, just the devil in the details. :-)

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@Jan regarding the kops manifest, we’ve been using gomplate (go templates) because terraform templates not not enough

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(no conditionals)

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

like you said, easy enough to parameterize

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Though I think maybe we would create a separate manifest

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since the changes would be significant.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

have a look at the latest changes for how we provision kops settings from terraform

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cloudposse/terraform-root-modules

Example Terraform service catalog of “root module” invocations for provisioning reference architectures - cloudposse/terraform-root-modules

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I am quite fond of it. We write them to SSM from terraform. Consume them with chamber and call build-kops-manifest or kops

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Cool

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Will be Re setting everything up with the cleaner reference architecture tomorrow morning

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And doing kops vpcs

2019-01-09

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in the new reference arch…

the org cidr range, whats the expectation there?

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# Network CIDR of Organization
org_network_cidr    = "10.0.0.0/8"
org_network_offset  = 100
org_network_newbits = 8    # /8 + /8 = /16
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that all the sub accounts fit within that cidr?

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So at this point I would love to have the new reference arch make root have a --dry-run option so I can still go verify and edit all the configuration before it starts bootstrapping

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

make root/init

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that does not apply

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cheers

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and then despite having set the region to eu-central-1 there is a hard expressed parameter or a variable thats only doing its default of using us-west-2 for the tfstate-backend s3 bucket

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* module.tfstate_backend.aws_s3_bucket.default: 1 error(s) occurred:

• aws_s3_bucket.default: Error creating S3 bucket: IllegalLocationConstraintException: The us-west-2 location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to.
Jan avatar

simply adding the following to the Dockerfile.root solves it for this case

# Jan hacking
ENV TF_VAR_region="${aws_region}"

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@Jan

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that all the sub accounts fit within that cidr?

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Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

yes, the idea was that we could peer the VPCs from any of the accounts, so the VPCs should have not-overlapping ranges

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Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

thanks for finding the issue, we’ll fix that

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totally

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and I do like the setting of the cidr’s per account/vpc

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but setting into a pre calculated range doesnt fit, especially for me

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

You can override them per account

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we only calculate it if account_cidr (i think) is not set

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perfect

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and im trying to work out how to use it

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same as I dont want to provision the aws_orgs part

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as I have the accounts already

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thanks @Jan

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any suggestions and improvements are welcome

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it was the first version of the ref architectures, definitely has room for improvements

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I have forked the 3 projects and will work on fixing the tf state bucket var

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Already validated it works

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And will try run a modded version of the reference architecture that fits my needs

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we’re using tvenv instead of using TF_VAR_ in Dockerfile

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I think I found the issue with the tfstate-backend vars

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cloudposse/reference-architectures

Get up and running quickly with one of our reference architecture using our fully automated cold-start process. - cloudposse/reference-architectures

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06:27:52 PM
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should those not rather be ENV TF_VAR_

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

no more TF_VAR_ ever

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mmmm really

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

standardize around normal envs

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that can be used by kops, terraform, scripts etc

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so im trying to track down why its reverting to the default value of us-west-2

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use tfenv to export them to terraform

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hrmm

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

what do you have in root.tfvars config?

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# The default region for this account
aws_region = "eu-central-1"

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hrmm

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ok, let’s address on our call

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I ended up with everything getting added in eu-central-1 and a error from s3 when it tried to create the bucket with region set to us-west-2

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ohhh

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

that’s TF_STATE_BUCKET_REGION

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we don’t se tthat in the bootstrap (oversight)

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I got around it by adding ENV TF_VAR_region="${aws_region}" to the Dockerfile.root

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good catch

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(let me confirm)

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slightly wrong

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cloudposse/geodesic

Geodesic is the fastest way to get up and running with a rock solid, production grade cloud platform built on top of strictly Open Source tools. ★ this repo! https://slack.cloudposse.com/ - clou…

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TF_BUCKET_REGION

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the problem is when going multi-region with terraform is where the statefiles belong

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hrm

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so im not trying to do multi region

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lets clarify it later

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ok

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cloudposse/terraform-root-modules

Example Terraform service catalog of “root module” invocations for provisioning reference architectures - cloudposse/terraform-root-modules

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here’s the other problem with the coldstart

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you’re right

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i’ll tell you the fix

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yea I saw the default value

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add a config template here:

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cloudposse/reference-architectures

Get up and running quickly with one of our reference architecture using our fully automated cold-start process. - cloudposse/reference-architectures

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for tfstate-backend

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cloudposse/reference-architectures

Get up and running quickly with one of our reference architecture using our fully automated cold-start process. - cloudposse/reference-architectures

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then add something like that

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then it will generate a terraform.tfvars for that project

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since each project might be in a different region

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(so there’s nothing wrong with setting TF_VAR_region in the Dockerfile - just I’m not advocating it anymore)

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I like the explicitness of terraform.tfvars

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will happily stick to the new convention

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… anyways this is a

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if you track a list of these issues I’ll get them fixed

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that worked great btw, thanks

2019-01-10

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is anyone using the new reference architecture with geodesic?

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I mean in here that isnt you I feel bad bombarding just you with questions

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Yeah probably not…. this is so new that I don’t think anyone has had the chance to run through it yet.

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Hehe then I will be the crash test dummy

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got make root working

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though get make children

make[1]: *** No rule to make target `staging/validate'.  Stop.
make: *** [staging/validate] Error 2
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Hrmmm that’s odd.

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Those targets are generated from the ACCOUNTS_ENABLED macro

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so I did make root - all passed, users created etc then directly to make child

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ACCOUNTS_ENABLED = staging prod testing data corp audit
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so in the artifacts the Makefile.env is populated

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so I think in the root makefile where we previously removed the --export-accounts argument that has had a knock on effect later

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busy testing

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mm no

2019-01-11

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wow the removal and deletion of aws org accounts is a pita

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cloudposse/reference-architectures

Get up and running quickly with one of our reference architecture using our fully automated cold-start process. - cloudposse/reference-architectures

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Oh yea not even trying via tf

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Doing it manually and it’s a grind

2019-01-14

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What’s the rational in having the reference architecture route 53 zones public?

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I get that you need to have a vpc existing in order create a private zone

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Mmmm actually

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Re reading the tf docs I need test it

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@Jan you need them public to be able to access the resources in the clusters, e.g. [us-west-1.prod.cloudposse.co](http://us-west-1.prod.cloudposse.co) is to access the k8s cluster in prod

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Absolutely not the case

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What I want is public people to access a elb via a set record that has nothing to do with the zones I would use for env cloudposse. Co

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Why leak all the info about all the environments you have and the record in them

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I will change our version of the ref arch to build internally

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So for example.. Have cloudposse.co as a public zone with an associated private zone

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All internal zones should have internal zones

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It is an anti pattern to expose anything (including dns hosts information) for anything not intended to be publicly consumed

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I normally do what I am describing with split horizon dns

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Especially so with any direct connect or vpg/vpn peering

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Ah Yea aws call it split-view

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@Jan you can do it with private zones as you described

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another reason to have public zones is when you use kops

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so I guess there are many diff use-cases here

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What I was asking is, given the focus on security in geodesic, the is seems wrong in the reference architecture

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Kops works perfectly fine for private

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Kops has no hard reliance on public r53 zones

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I will rework our fork of the reference architecture tonight and see if I can resolve this

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btw, kops works without any DNS at all

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it supports gossip mode

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we used this with our caltech vanvalen project

2019-01-15

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is it safe to assuem this is the current state to follow?

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cloudposse/geodesic

Geodesic is the fastest way to get up and running with a rock solid, production grade cloud platform built on top of strictly Open Source tools. ★ this repo! https://slack.cloudposse.com/ - clou…

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for getting k8s into geodesic

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Cool so I have kops creating a cluster in a vpc with a private hosted zone

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all working

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need to polish a bit

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and stuff

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but I have my previous idea, I define my vpc and launch k8s into it

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Nice @Jan

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also using the kops-backing-services

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mostly

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so with the cluster running as per geodewssic aws/kops method

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mostly

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failed processing /conf/helmfiles/releases/prometheus-operator.yaml: exit status 1
Jan avatar

Is rbac being taken into account?

Jan avatar
  • rbacEnable: {{ env “RBAC_ENABLED”default “false” }}
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cloudposse/helmfiles

Comprehensive Distribution of Helmfiles. Works with helmfile.d - cloudposse/helmfiles

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@Jan by default our helmfiles don’t use RBAC

Jan avatar

I am asking if in the geodesic reference arch rbac is being used

Jan avatar

ah nm

Jan avatar

read your response wrong

Jan avatar

so….. I can understand its easier to not

Jan avatar

but its much much worse

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agree

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do you have all the rbac resources (service account, role binding, etc.) provisioned in the cluster?

Jan avatar

just added

Jan avatar

more exploring how much is or is not dealt with in the current ref arch

Jan avatar

and extending it to do what I need

Jan avatar

hAHAHA

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Error: identified at least one change, exiting with non-zero exit code (detailed-exitcode parameter enabled)
identified at least one change, exiting with non-zero exit code (detailed-exitcode parameter enabled)
Error: plugin "diff" exited with error
Jan avatar
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Jan avatar

this by itself is a better place to start

chrism avatar

Hey; I love the centralised management of roles/users using this setup; but how would you restrict a users access at a sub-org level with the current setup? Say for example you have a user jim in root who only has access to the data org, and you want to restrict that to just elasticache in the data org.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

there are a few options

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

1) create more groups with fine grained access control like you describe; then add users to those groups.

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2) add the policies directly to the IAM user.

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I like (1) the best.

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what you describe is a highly specific requirement (not wrong!), so we haven’t tried to come up with any patterns to generalize that.

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…perhaps after seeing more patterns like this, we can whip up a module for it

chrism avatar

I’ll have a prod around, the less unicorns the better

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

cool

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

happy to give you a high level overview / demo of what it all looks like

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I’m guessing the simplest way would be to create a role within the sub-organisation to (as per the example) allow only access to one area and a group. tbh I probably need to RTFM on iam + suborgs. Previously we’d manage the users in each org (which is a headache in itself)

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Love the wrapper around aws-vault and the sts usage; its a really nice way to standardise access

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right - avoid managing users in suborgs

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yea, the geodesic shell has made it A LOT easier to distribute an advanced toolchain

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we used to try to do it all “natively” (e..g on osx) and always ran into problems

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

old version of XYZ package

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“works on my machine”

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communicating upgrades etc

chrism avatar

We’re a mix of windows / nix / mac so its good to see something that wont turn me from a developer into desktop support

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

do you guys run WSL?

chrism avatar

Docker is a god send for tooling

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we have early support for that.

chrism avatar

yeah all in WSL

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

a few community members were using geodesic in that setting.

chrism avatar

docker for windows; wsl talking over tcp. Works relatively seamlessly

Jan avatar

Make vs make :(

chrism avatar

We’re mostly using the ref setup (setup individually) for the org management. Our actual infrastructure in the orgs will be a tad more hybrid as we have our own terraform modules etc / splits across regions

Jan avatar

Tool chains in docker are the future

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Yeah docker’s pretty sweet for simplifying tooling; we already use it as an ops tool for running scans and long custom chains of tools to analyse deployments / nmap / etc. Kubernetes is a mixed bag though; its like creating a magic-bag for developers to throw half baked code into

chrism avatar

Good work chaps; its nice to see an opinionated, secure by default, design

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

thanks @chrism!

2019-01-16

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pecigonzalo

I was going over geodesic, im trying to understand what goofys is used for, I understand you mount some s3 buckets, but what for?

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pecigonzalo

as afaik you use terraform backends, so state should work/happen through that

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joshmyers

@pecigonzalo it was used to mount secrets from s3 to a local filesystem

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joshmyers

I think @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) is wanting to move away from it and instead use SSM

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pecigonzalo

OK, that makes sense, like sensitive tfvars and other variable/config/secrets

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pecigonzalo

thanks

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joshmyers

mounts private keys by the looks of it

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cloudposse/terraform-root-modules

Example Terraform service catalog of “root module” invocations for provisioning reference architectures - cloudposse/terraform-root-modules

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12:08:39 AM
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who will be lucky #200?

2019-01-17

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nutellinoit

★ repo

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09:23:46 AM
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WOOHOO! thanks @nutellinoit

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Jan avatar

What version of kops / k8s is supported currently?

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cloudposse/geodesic

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@Jan we recently deployed 1.10.12 with kops

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kubernetes/kops

Kubernetes Operations (kops) - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management - kubernetes/kops

kubernetes/kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management - kubernetes/kubernetes

Jan avatar

Awesome

Jan avatar

Will start at that Version

2019-01-18

daveyu avatar

trying to hack my way through using the reference architecture with an existing root account. got prod and audit accounts created with make root, but now running into this:

➜ make children
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `prod/validate'.  Stop.
make: *** [prod/validate] Error 2
daveyu avatar

artifacts/Makefile.env looks right:

ACCOUNTS_ENABLED = prod audit

and the account IDs are in artifacts/acounts.tfvars

daveyu avatar

where else should I look for problems?

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ohhhh yes, there’s a bug.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

edit tasks/Makefile.child

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

find the macro called child

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

there is an = sign after it. that works in some makes and not in others

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

remove the = and it will work.

daveyu avatar

beautiful. thanks

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if it helps..

GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@Jan ran into this

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we spent some time debugging it. Yea, I’ve been developing it on an AWS WorkSpace instance which is Amazon Linux

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

on OSX this happens

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Fix Make Error · Issue #10 · cloudposse/reference-architectures

what When trying to hack my way through using the reference architecture with an existing root account, I got prod and audit accounts created. When I run make root, it errors ➜ make children make[1…

loren avatar

sometimes you need to make make!

make/install: MAKE_MAKE_VERSION ?= 4.1
make/install: MAKE_SOURCE ?= <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-$(MAKE_MAKE_VERSION).tar.gz>
make/install: | $(BIN_DIR)
	@echo "[make]: MAKE_SOURCE=$(MAKE_SOURCE)"
	$(CURL) -o make.tar.gz "$(MAKE_SOURCE)"
	tar xvf make.tar.gz
	cd make-* && ./configure --bindir=$(BIN_DIR) && sudo make install
	rm -rf make*
	which make
	make --version
Fix Make Error · Issue #10 · cloudposse/reference-architectures

what When trying to hack my way through using the reference architecture with an existing root account, I got prod and audit accounts created. When I run make root, it errors ➜ make children make[1…

party_parrot1
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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Lol

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Make inception

loren avatar

Yeah, wasn’t sure it would work, but it does! Got tired of running into problems on different platforms due old make versions, and the newer features I like to use

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I commented on the GH issue and shared my method for detecting and bypassing as best I could, the old 3.81 version of make.

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hrmm

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so I think @Jan had success on OSX Make 3.81

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without updating make

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(using the earlier fix in the issue linked, by removing the extraneous =)

Jan avatar

Yep, all worked after removing the trailing =

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12:31:54 AM
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pecigonzalo

Im a simple man, I see colors and design, I upvote

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Geodesic inside of tmate over the web

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Add tmate-session script by osterman · Pull Request #359 · cloudposse/geodesic

what Support remote debugging of geodesic containers why This is useful for pairing with other developers or debuging remote k8s pods, ECS tasks, atlantis, etc.. references #356 (related use-c…

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2019-01-21

Jan avatar

ha that gnu make on osx thing is a pita

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tolstikov

brew install remake

Jan avatar
rocky/remake

Enhanced GNU Make - tracing, error reporting, debugging, profiling and more - rocky/remake

chrism avatar

Is there a reason the org names are filtered to a predefined list rather than just allowing anything?

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

but I would be open to hearing your use-case

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

We have for an early customer chosen one unique TLD per account so they don’t even share that.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Also, we make the distinction between a company’s “service discovery domain” and it’s “branded” or “vanity” domains.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I think it makes pretty good sense to keep strong consistency on the service discovery domain, while letting the branded domains stray as far as necessary .

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

branded domains are what the public uses.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ohhh, the org “account” names

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Soooooooooo yes, that’s terraform being terraform

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

It’s very tricky to reference dynamic properties

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we use SSM parameter store to reduce that burden

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

but the the deal is this, we define some accounts and those accounts have some purpose that we cannot easily generalize without going much deeper into code generation.

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On top of that, AWS doesn’t allow easy programatic deletion of accounts, so it’s incredibly painful to test. Requires, logging into each suborg manually and setting up the master account creds, before going to terraform to try and delete it.

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it’s to reduce the number of settings

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the more predictable they are, they more assumptions we can make

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

… if we’re talking about terraform-root-modules, the idea here is that these are hyper opinionated.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

All of our other terraform-aws-* modules are designed to be building blocks

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but at some point, you need to stop generalizing and implement something. That’s terraform-root-modules

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@chrism would be happy to give you a high level over view of everything and some of the design decisions.

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Of course, we want to capture all that in documentation, but that is not caught up.

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Everyone loves documenting things

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lol

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I was thinking more along the lines of root / audit / maybe data would be opinionated, if its not in the list assume its more of a blank slate like dev or prod sans the pre-included docker

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soooooo what I’m leaning towards right now is adding more types of accounts

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

rather than renaming the current accounts

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it makes it impossible to document a moving target

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

what are the account names you’d like to see?

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chrism avatar

To be honest its probably a bit domain specific to us but data-prod rather than just data. and something akin to dev-{team}. I can see myself being buried in orgs which isn’t great but at the same time it reduces risk around shared areas between teams / improves the ability to audit / split billing.

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another idea that @Jan had is to supply another “set” of accounts

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_I also realise i can do similar with policies in aws like we do in our original 1 org structure _

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I’m simply thinking of dumb accounts basically that you can setup as needed / make use of the centralised auth with

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

So the part that I found tricky was NS delegation.

Jan avatar

The dns delegation 8s easy

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

didn’t you end up hardcoding it?

Jan avatar

Nope I created a private an additional module for making a private zone

Jan avatar

Depedancy is having a vpc before

Jan avatar

But that fits into my plan of creating a vpc that fits into my subnet strategy and have a k8s cluster launch into that vpc

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It’s totally possible to do what you want to do, just with trade offs.

Jan avatar

I found the getting the networking / vpc stuff more interesting

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chrism avatar

Admittedly not using any of the K8 / domain stuff as we use rancher for K8 management and multiple vpcs per env (we just run stateless apps in k8)

chrism avatar

Tapping my foot waiting for AWS to match Azure + Google and make EKS free

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

yea, seriously

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

it’s really far behind in as it relates to k8s

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Would love to see the rancher stuff. I bet we could expand the geodesic story to support the rancher cli.

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Ranchers pretty neat for what it does (Api proxy / rbac auth); we run the rancher control plane (HA) from our datacenter rather than AWS so its a bit of manual wiring to get the K8 plane setup. But it does talk to EKS which is good (from a compliance front) as it takes away 6 vms we’d otherwise have to manage

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In an ideal world it would be more terraform friendly

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as would everything

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

yea, getting everything in under terraform is nice

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in the end though, it’s hard to expect one tool to do the job

chrism avatar

live the dream

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We’ve used it to manage dualDNS providers for a couple of years now; I just hope the 0.12 conversion tool works well

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yea, srsly

chrism avatar

I just see the words breaking change; look at all the repos of terraform and think FOOOOK

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its either that or tag everything to run with <.12

2019-01-22

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@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-root-modules/commit/547302316db329f492411bff44aae045bd70e430#diff-b4b339745fca6a54353bf7f392d8dc60 was the naming change intentional? Terraform hates refactoring

Terraform will perform the following actions:
  - aws_organizations_account.audit
  + module.audit.aws_organizations_account.default
chrism avatar

breaks out terraform state mv

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Yes, the terraform-root-modules are best forked by an organization

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they are your starting off point

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we refactored all the root modules to support SSM and made them more DRY by using local submodules

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Yeah I quite like the submodule approach (as it saves extra shit to pull /versions to track)

Forking Root is something I shall definitely be doing.

Whats with the SSM though? its just storing ARNs (in this bit anyway) which are all named by convention

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I should probably do the fork first and make use of that good old S3 versioning to uncorrupt my state file

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

so the SSM allows us to programmatically reference variables by name

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e.g. we cannot progammatically reference an output by name from the terraform remote state provider

chrism avatar

cool

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joshmyers

Refactoring Terraform is painful.

chrism avatar

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TERRAFORM CRASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not half

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@Nico You might run into a few bugs with the referrence-architectures

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

there are a few people who have recently run through it and can maybe help if you get stuck

Nico avatar

ok cool, I’ll definitely reach out

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

(check the open issues)

Nico avatar

cool, thank you

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I can also give you (or anyone else) an overview via Zoom

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tolstikov

please ping me when you’ll schedule it with someone, I’ll try to join!

Nico avatar

yeah I will definitely need some guidance once I actually start working on the architecture

2019-01-23

raehik avatar

font recs for a stubborn Arch user

raehik avatar

symbola is awful and emoji fonts don’t include the math symbols in geodesic prompt T_T

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cloudposse/geodesic

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We’ve had a few issues in the past related to the prompt

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(fwiw, on OSX and Amazon Linux it’s working for me)

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Can’t lookup the font right now.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

If you set PROMPT_STYLE=plain it should use no funky characters

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cloudposse/geodesic

Geodesic is the fastest way to get up and running with a rock solid, production grade cloud platform built on top of strictly Open Source tools. ★ this repo! https://slack.cloudposse.com/ - clou…

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Cheers. stick with Symbola for now. Surprised that DejaVu doesn’t include those chars

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I keep seeing DEPRECATED: /usr/local/bin/init-terraform is no longer needed. Use tfenv instead. init-terraform still works (and is still prompted as you change folders), but how is the other supposed to work?

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sec (docs haven’t been updated)

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In each project folder in /conf

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Add a file like this one:

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# Import the remote module
export TF_CLI_INIT_FROM_MODULE="git::<https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-root-modules.git//aws/ecs?ref=tags/0.33.0>"
export TF_CLI_PLAN_PARALLELISM=2

use terraform
use tfenv
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Read up on this here:

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cloudposse/tfenv

Transform environment variables for use with Terraform (e.g. HOSTNAMETF_VAR_hostname) - cloudposse/tfenv

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basically, we discovered we don’t need wrappers to use terraform with remote state and remote modules

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Ah cool; similar to .env files in node projects

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we can populate TF_CLI_ARGS* envs

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

yes

chrism avatar

thats nice; though I’ve nothing against a good shell script

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

so this common direnv interface works well with both terraform, kops etc.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Yea, though I’m not crazy about string manipulation in bash

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and if we’re going to use a formal language, default to go so we don’t need to install a lot of deps and can easily distribute with cloudposse/packages

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so you’ll dig this:

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cloudposse/geodesic

Geodesic is the fastest way to get up and running with a rock solid, production grade cloud platform built on top of strictly Open Source tools. ★ this repo! https://slack.cloudposse.com/ - clou…

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direnv has support for a stdlib

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that can be extended

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so we’ve added our own extensions…… (partially for backwards compat)

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but users can add their own helpers

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(or override ours)

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Cool; its a damn sight easier to script stuff up and know it’ll run in linux. And as a general distribution mechanism rather than having to keep repos filled with scripts

chrism avatar

All makes sense though; the make file systems a nice addition; I tend to write them with terraform envs, docker dealt with making sure people had the tools but linking it all up to the WSL auth (aws vault) has dealt with the headache of keeping things secure

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Yea, really excited with how it’s all come together.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Optionally, add a Makefile like this one:

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

## Fetch the remote terraform module
deps:
	terraform init

## Reset this project
reset:
	rm -rf Makefile *.tf .terraform
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Hey guys - do you generally recommend that people create a new docker image based on the cloudposse geodesic image, or fork the geodesic repo and customize as needed?

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I think it depends

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Here’s how I recommend you get started.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Get everything up and running using cloudposse/geodesic; reduce the moving pieces

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

then consider forking cloudposse/geodesic and adding your extensions

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)
nikiai/geodesic

Geodesic is the fastest way to get up and running with a rock solid, production grade cloud platform - nikiai/geodesic

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

here’s an example of someone else - they forked and switched to debian =P

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Thanks

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Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

Use geodesic image as base for your own image

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Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

Look at cloudposse/testing.cloudposse.co as an example

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

(though [testing.cloudposse.co](http://testing.cloudposse.co) is quite out of date)

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

The reference-architectures are most current

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@me1249 got your PRs

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

thanks!

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I’m going to get that taken carre of

2019-01-24

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Appears that geodesic doesn’t have a terminfo file for Termite

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upon running the geodesic image script:

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 ✗   (none) ~ ⨠  echo $TERM
xterm-termite
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
-> Run 'assume-role' to login to AWS
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
(~4 more times)
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for anyone else with this problem, run it in tmux or simply export TERM=screen-256color

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

Thanks for posting your fix!

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unknown terminal "xterm-termite" · Issue #365 · cloudposse/geodesic

what On Arch linux someone reported in slack that they get this error: ✗ (none) ~ ⨠ echo $TERM xterm-termite tput: unknown terminal &quot;xterm-termite&quot; tput: unknown terminal &quot;xterm-term…

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

geodesic is just alpine under the hood

2019-01-25

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and alpine is awesome for docker images

cool-doge2
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I’m trying to glue a couple of things together but I’ve a feeling the only way it’ll work with the audit/root org setup is if I change the cloudwatch module

by default cloudtrail in root/data etc creates a log-group to match the org namespace (it doesnt set the cloud_watch_logs_role_arn/cloud_watch_logs_group_arn so the resulting log group is null as their’s no cloudwatch)

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adding

module "cloudwatch_log" {
  source            = "git::<https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-cloudwatch-logs.git?ref=tags/0.2.2>"
  namespace         = "${var.namespace}"
  stage             = "${var.stage}"
  retention_in_days = 180
}

and the cloudwatch role+group arn to the cloudtrail tries to create module.cloudwatch_log.aws_iam_role.default which fails

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` aws_iam_role.default: Error creating IAM Role testns-root-log-group: MalformedPolicyDocument: Invalid principal in policy: com.amazon.balsa.error.InvalidPolicyException: The passed in policy has a statement with no principals!`

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Remind me to mount the local volume on a folder so I can sync in changes rather than typing make all every few minutes

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joshmyers

You homedir gets mounted to /localhost in geodesic

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chrism
04:39:44 PM
picard_fail1
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you know I’ve seen that everytime I open the shell and still didnt click

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joshmyers

For exactly that reason

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its been a long week

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

sorry for our contribution to that!!

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

haha

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

so our (my) dev workflow is to develop in my regular IDE

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

keep a geodesic shell open to the dev/sandbox account

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

cd /localhost/...../project

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and iterate that way

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that makes perfect sense

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not randomly typing vi and duplicating stuff backwards like a pleb

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

yea, and forgetting that the one thing that you actually made in the shell manually

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oh that never happens whistles innocently

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

here’s something else that’s cool:

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Add Better Support for Minikube · Issue #204 · cloudposse/geodesic

what Add support for Docker for Mac (DFM) Kubernetes or Minikube why Faster LDE, protyping Testing Helm Charts, Helmfiles howto I got it working very easily. Here&#39;s what I did (manually): Enabl…

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I haven’t formalized a workflow around it, but I did a POC

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

we can actually use geodesic with minikube

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neat; we all run rancher locally / docker for desktop minikubes handy for quick pocs

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ahh localhost mounts to the user folder. Still need to map all my work lives on a separate ssd.

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ohhh

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

look at /usr/local/bin/<script>

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I think you can override it

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

if not, we would accept PR to support overriding it

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cool I’ll have a dig as I assume the home paths used for aws-vault

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

that too

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its easy enough to get docker to dance

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and a local “Cache”

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windows subsystem; where home is home but not quite home

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

are you using WSL?

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yep

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ubuntu 18

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

yea, that was A MAJOR pain

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

it took us a few PRs to get that right

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works REALLY well so you did a good job there

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Think I got the cloudwatch issue down. I already had it scripted up before splitting all the orgs so I’ve made it sorta hybrid for the time being. https://gist.github.com/ChrisMcKee/0ca78c207fa7c3aca3b973c824aab069

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Now to wait for the SIEM monitoring company to start screaming… probably shouldnt have changed it all on a friday

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

what company do you use? (curious)

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dm’d

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joshmyers

Hopefully not AlienVault

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joshmyers

I remember doing some due diligence a while back and found private keys in their AMIs picard_fail

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lol cough

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we use all the aws stuff as well as the managed service but it all feeds into the one place for monitoring as well as the aws notifications. Much as I’d love to trust a single service

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There’s a distinct lack of silver bullets

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any good guides on using docker in WSL? i was looking into it a while ago, but at the time it seemed either/or not both

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Setting Up Docker for Windows and WSL to Work Flawlesslyattachment image

With a couple of tweaks the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, also known as Bash for Windows) can be used with Docker for Windows.

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Thanks! I swear it was probably the week before this article posted that I was last looking for an updated guide! Can’t keep up!

Setting Up Docker for Windows and WSL to Work Flawlesslyattachment image

With a couple of tweaks the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, also known as Bash for Windows) can be used with Docker for Windows.

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Works fine

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ahh, now i remember the problem, i need to be able to use virtualbox locally (for packer, nothing persistent), and installing docker for windows enables hyper-v, which breaks virtualbox

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

ohhhh yea, I’ve had similar issues when trying to use other VMs

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Maybe I can get terraform to launch i3 metal instances to run virtualbox and packer for me

2019-01-26

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Packer runs fine on windows though , you can run it in docker as well. Very few reasons for vbox thesedays

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i understand that, it’s really a vagrant box that packer is creating, with a virtualbox provider

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of course packer runs fine itself on windows, but packer launches virtualbox locally to create the image/ovf, and then converts it to a vagrant box

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so, somehow or other, i need packer to be able to run virtualbox

2019-01-30

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cloudposse/geodesic

Geodesic is the fastest way to get up and running with a rock solid, production grade cloud platform built on top of strictly Open Source tools. ★ this repo! https://slack.cloudposse.com/ - clou…

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We’ve added okta support

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